IOS is not only a more reliable and closed operating system, but also a platform with a lot of software that is not available to users of devices running Android. At WWDC 2017, senior vice president of software development, Craig Federigi, introduced a unique ARKit technology designed to create augmented reality applications in iOS 11 environments. Today the company Laan Labs announced a program that allows using AR-technology to accurately measure the distances between objects.

In the video, the developers showed the accuracy of the AR Measure application, measuring the length of the table simultaneously with the program and the real tape measure.

Similar applications were already available in the App Store, but in the case of the novelty, the accuracy of the work. The virtual ruler is able to measure distances with an error of not more than half a centimeter.

Previously, application developers have shown impressive examples of using the ARKit toolkit in iOS 11. They demonstrated programs that project interactive real objects onto real space.

ARKit supports iPhone and iPad based on Apple A9 and A10 processors. In Cupertino predict the emergence of a large number of games in augmented reality. According to Federigi, ARKit will make iOS "the largest AR-platform in the world". After all, Tim Cook has not just previously called augmented reality the same "big idea, like smartphones".

Earlier IKEA presented AR-application based on ARKit for virtual fitting of furniture in the room. That is, to make a decision on the purchase of interior items, users can not postpone the iPhone.

The first applications and games based on ARKit will be released this fall, along with iOS 11.